Before It’s 9.48 am. Having unpacked my sewing machine from its corner in the cupboard of doom and pulled out my two bags of “sewing stuff”, I might as well be looking at a jet engine. I have no recollection of what to do, the (at a guess) nine years since I last used this […]
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Before It’s 9.39 am. I am very much looking forward to my home spa day. I plan to use every possible treatment, cream and nail tool I have. I have also decided to spring clean the lounge, use an air diffuser for spa scent and prepare my activity table (phone, headphones, book, drink, possible snack).
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Before It’s 9.48 am and I’m reporting for duty (I have always wanted to say that). At this stage in the day, I have never listened to a podcast, I have no idea how or where to – broadcast? Post? Publish? – a podcast and I am actually not at all sure what defines a
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Well, now I have time, with bittersweet thanks to coronavirus. As I am the kind of person who needs a framework and a plan to effectively be a do-er rather than a think-about-er, this is how I intend to fill 10 of the next 23 days (no intended meaning to the 23), doing some of
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Japan transforms me into a hitherto unknown person who loves cute, jangly, dinky, plastic unnecessaries. Similarly, a lunch box obsession, both eating from shop-bought bento and buying packed lunch boxes, emerges and, through purchase of the latter, continues for at least a few months back home in the UK. Bento means “the useful thing” or
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I have a 27-month-old Samsung Galaxy Note 8, my overall favourite mobile phone. It is the most expensive mobile I’ve ever bought, though perhaps correspondingly also the longest lasting. I still use it. The battery life is its only significant weak point. On top of the initial expense of the phone, I have been through
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